Automate Your Build Environment with Vagrant

C. Aaron Coiswww.codehenge.net

@aaroncois

Cause?

• Lack of parity between environments throughout your dev process

• Devs:– Prefer different OSs [Windows/Linux/OSX]– Work on multiple projects– They tinker…– They install things…

Haskell

ErlangC++

Haskell

ErlangC++

Haskell

ErlangC++

Haskell

ErlangC++

Haskell

ErlangC++

So?

• Each application causes system divergence– New libraries– Conflicting versions of languages/frameworks– Different network configs

The Ideal

• Unique development environment for each project

• Identical environments for each developer

…Enter Vagrant

Vagrant

• Leverage virtualization and automated system configuration

• Automatically create and seamlessly manage custom development environments

• Built on– VirtualBox– Chef/Puppet/scripts

Clever Girl…

Keep your usual host dev tools– IDE– Browser

Demo

Resources

• Gareth Rushgrove maintains a nice list of Vagrant base boxes at

http://www.vagrantbox.es

• I have some examples on github:https://github.com/cacois

Thank you

Feel free to contact me:

C. Aaron Coisaaron.cois@gmail.com / @aaroncois

https://github.com/cacois

www.codehenge.net